Following a barrage of criticism, organizers of an international reggae festival in Spain backtracked Wednesday and apologized for cancelling a concert by Jewish-American singer Matisyahu because he had declined to state his position regarding a Palestinian state.
An unauthorized recording of Avraham Fried singing an unfinished new song for his upcoming album was leaked to social media by an unidentified person. The illicit recording of the song, titled ‘Ribon Ha’olamim,’ likely originated from someone who was present at the time in the studio.
Jewish reggae star Matisyahu responded on Monday to being dropped by Spain’s Rototom reggae festival saying organizers’ efforts to pressure him to endorse the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement were “appalling and offensive.”
Leonard (Lenny) Robinson, OBM, known around the world as a costumed superhero Batman and who dedicated his life to bringing joy to ill children, was tragically killed in a crash on a Maryland highway on August 16th. He was 51 years old.
Matisyahu, an American Jewish reggae singer, was disinvited from a music festival in Spain because he would not publicly endorse Palestinian statehood, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Sunday.
Rabbi Meshulem Feish Lowy, the Tosher Rebbe, known for his magnetic personality and an ever present aura of holiness, died today at the age of 95.
Members of a Chabad congregation in Orlando, Fl., held a special prayer quorum, or minyan, on Sunday to support a Jewish woman who lost her arm after she was attacked by an alligator in a nearby river last Saturday, the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle reported.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) on Tuesday indicated he’s leaning towards voting against the Iran nuclear deal.
This morning, a suspicious object resembling an IED (a remotely-detonated improvised explosive device) was placed in the pathway leading up to the Chabad House in Gothenburg, Sweden, which is directed by Rabbi Alexander Namdar.
A terrible crash in Arizona has claimed the lives of two young women from Boro Park; two other passengers were critically injured.
Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Prudenshedsky, a Chabad Shliach in the Israeli Moshav of Ganei Yochanan, could not believe his eyes: after mistakenly leaving his Tefillin in the sunlight for two hours, he discovered that the straps were not made of leather – as required by Halachah – but of cheap plastic.
The chief rabbi and Chabad emissary of the Netherlands, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, says “it is time,” and is calling on Netherland’s Prime Minister to follow the lead of his neighbors and offer an official apology on behalf of his nation for collaborating with the Nazis in the killing of Jews during the Holocaust.
The owner of a kosher bakery in Philadelphia was shot in the face during an apparent attempted robbery Friday morning. She survived, though she is listed in critical condition.
The Algemeiner honored two titans of journalism at its fourth annual Summer Benefit late last week in New York City.
Last week, in front of a crowd of 6,000 at the Sultan’s Pool in Jerusalem, Chasidic singing star Avraham Fried introduced a new single – a moving, inspirational and catchy song titled ‘Yerushalayim Shebalev’ (Jerusalem in [my] heart).
A unique encounter between various Ukrainian religious leaders occurred on Tuesday in Kiev. The president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, Kiev’s Chief Rabbi and Chabad emissary, were among the participants. During the encounter, a personal conversation took place between the two regarding the anti-Semitism in the Ukraine.
Assailants attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank early Friday and torched two homes, killing a young child and critically wounding at least three people, in what the Israeli prime minister called a “terror attack.” The arsonists scrawled graffiti on the homes they attacked, including “revenge!” and “Yechi Hamelech Hamoshiach!”
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